Inequality and Poverty in China in the Age of Globalization or Faded Dreams

Inequality and Poverty in China in the Age of Globalization

Author: Carl Riskin

China's explosive economic growth since 1988 has not resulted in an equal increase of income among all Chinese citizens. The authors explore a range of reasons for the disparity and base their conclusions on strong empirical evidence--especially the 1996 survey conducted by the State Statistical Bureau.

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Faded Dreams: The Politics and Economics of Race in America

Author: Martin Carnoy

Faded Dreams paints a new and challenging picture of how racial inequality has evolved in America. Martin Carnoy shows that three dominant views of economic differences between blacks and whites--that blacks are individually responsible for not taking advantage of market opportunities, that the world economy has changed in ways that puts blacks at a tremendous disadvantage compared to whites, and that pervasive racism is holding blacks down--do not adequately explain why blacks made such large gains in the past and stopped making them in the 1980s and 1990s. Using a systematic analysis of fifty years of data on income, education, and the variety of jobs that both blacks and whites have held, Faded Dreams offers a powerful argument for active government intervention to improve the education and living conditions of disadvantaged black children.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Introduction	1
2	The ups and downs of African-American fortunes	13
3	The politics of explaining racial inequality	34
4	Are blacks to blame?	58
5	Is the economy to blame?	86
6	Have racism and discrimination increased?	109
7	Politics and black educational opportunity	127
8	Politics and black job opportunities: I	150
9	Politics and black job opportunities: II	172
10	Black economic gains and ideology: the White House factor	195
11	Is there any hope for greater equality?	221
	Appendix A	243
	Appendix B	246
	Notes	248
	Index	275